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Angela Savage, our regular reviewer and crime writer offers the best Australian crime reads of 2014 and a few to look out for next year. Sweet One by Peter Docker What Came Before by Anna George In the Morning I'll Be Gone by Adrian McKinty Beams Falling by PM Newton Life or Death by Michael Robotham In ...

It was 1971 and the world was reeling from the Charles Manson murder. In Chicago, a pregnant mother and her two children are found bludgeoned to death in a similar manner. Her husband Jeffrey Macdonald, a military doctor, was also wounded but was he the murderer? The case went through many trials and ...

A few years ago I spent two days getting to know the leader of a Mississippi white supremacist group, a man named Richard Barrett. I was filming a story for a quirky documentaries series. Then one year later, he was shot dead by a young black yard man. I realise that this is my Truman Capote moment. I ...